Merritt v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A crime of 11 personal violence against the child is a crime that destroys the conjugal relation and 12 in essence is a controversy between husband and wife within the meaning of our 13 statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Merritt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-04· cited 50×
• Maiben v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-10-14· cited 36×
• Stubbs v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-12-21· cited 15×
• Tapp v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1977-07-06· cited 12×
• Wideman v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1976-11-16· cited 11×
• Tapp v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-08-08· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Hancharik
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-27· cited 6×
• Blakeney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2010-07-20· cited 5×
• Merritt v. Quaker Oats Co.
  S.D. Mississippi· 1981-09-08· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Economou
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1999-03-15
• State v. Schmidt
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2026-03-31

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Funk v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1933-12-11· cited 406×
• Hawkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-11-24· cited 277×
• State v. Kollenborn
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1957-09-09· cited 57×
• State v. Taylor
  Montana Supreme Court· 1973-11-05· cited 47×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1960-01-05· cited 22×
• Turner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1882-10-15· cited 17×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1924-05-15· cited 11×
• McRae v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1913-03-15· cited 11×
• Wallace v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-02-28· cited 10×
• Fairley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-11-14· cited 3×
• Graham v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1964-11-02· cited 1×